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Capacity Watch

Review utilization trends before storage, compute, licensing, or staff capacity becomes urgent.

Type: Operations recordVersion: v7

Operating review

Capacity Watch should be run as a practical control, not as a ceremonial meeting. The review should produce decisions, assigned follow-up, and evidence that the checked condition is still healthy or being corrected.

  1. Review current utilization and trend direction for the constrained resource.
  2. Identify forecasted exhaustion dates and thresholds that require action.
  3. Separate temporary spikes from durable growth or structural limits.
  4. Record mitigation options, owner, cost class, and decision deadline.
  5. Escalate when lead time is longer than available headroom.

Expected output

A dated operating review record showing findings, decisions, exceptions, owners, and next review point.

Common failure mode

Keeping the document as a form instead of using it to make decisions visible.

Use notes

Best triggerUse when the work repeats, affects others, creates risk, or needs a defensible handoff.
EvidenceKeep the shortest record that proves the decision, action, owner, and result.
Review pointReview after incidents, repeated confusion, tool changes, ownership changes, or missed expectations.

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